BY JAMES L. ROSICA Tribune/Scripps Capital Bureau Published: April 14, 2014 | Updated: April 14, 2014 at 07:06 PM TALLAHASSEE — With two work weeks left in Florida’s legislative session, lawmakers have passed just one measure related to creating or widening loopholes in the state’s “sunshine” laws but they are close to passing […]
Editorial: Barriers to records
Florida lawmakers need to take a stand for open government, rather than allowing barriers to stand in the way of public records. They have a chance to do so by passing SB 1648. The measure would mark the most significant strengthening of the state’s open government laws in two decades, said Barbara Petersen, president of […]
Meet the local paper that’s ‘raising hell’ to keep government open – Columbia Journalism Review
By Susannah Nesmith MIAMI, FL — The Jacksonville-based Florida Times Union is a rare outlier these days, a mid-sized regional paper willing to fight big open-government battles even as most media organizations cut back on the resources they devote to forcing officials to do their work in public. The paper has been aggressively enforcing the […]